At the entrance to the spaghetti dinner fundraiser
Last evening, a Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser was held at the Kingston Senior Center. The proceeds for the dinner went to Operation Reach. Check out Operation Reach website here and their Facebook here. Operation Reach is a 501-C-3 non profit in Roane County. The organization has been in existence for 38 years and they help make Christmas for the children and families in need.
State Representative Kent Calfee in the tie and jacket along with Bobby Collier, a roane County Commissioner and original organizer of Operation Reach 38 years ago.
State Representative Kent Calfee and his wife Marilyn were the host and Sponsors for last nights fundraiser. At a time when Calfee could be having a fundraiser for his re-election campaign in 2014, he is sponsoring fundraisers to help those that can not at this time help themselves.
The Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser under way
Good food, Good Fellowship all for a GREAT cause.
Tamara Shepherd called Farragut High and tried to get home address and phone number of the kid who gave that speech. When told that that info was not available for privacy reasons, she freaked and said it was a matter of public record. No matter how much was told otherwise she insisted that secretary give her the info and then the principal had to get involved. True story and I can’t believe you haven’t heard it, Brian.
“Tamara Shepherd called Farragut High and tried to get home address and phone number of the kid who gave that speech. When told that that info was not available for privacy reasons, she freaked and said it was a matter of public record. No matter how much was told otherwise she insisted that secretary give her the info and then the principal had to get involved. True story and I can’t believe you haven’t heard it, Brian.”
Thanks to Brian Hornback for the opportunity to correct this poster’s potentially libelous statement.
I am someone delighted to see the national attention Farragut High student Ethan Young has garnered since his eloquent condemnation of Common Core at that recent public meeting of the Knox County Board of Education.
With a goal of telling the young man so, I phoned the Board of Education’s secretary last week to request the address Young offered in that public meeting. I did not contact any school and I certainly did not have any confrontation with any principal (or anyone else). In fact, when the Board’s secretary declined to offer the record, I just thanked her and hung up.
The tack I took is that the young man voluntarily spoke in public forum at a public meeting of a public body in a public place, where he was asked by the recording secretary of the public body to “state (his) name and address for the record.”
He did so, it aired on both the public body’s live streaming and its TV broadcast, and I’m told it also aired on the TV station’s re-broadcast a week later.
Two people with whom I double-checked my assumption that the address was therefore a public record, one a journalist of probably 30 years and the other the recording secretary to a public body elsewhere, both affirmed that state public record law and not federal FERPA law (privacy of “student records”) guides in this question.
In short, it is the understanding of we three that no one voluntarily speaking in a public meeting of this sort may have any expectation of privacy, irrespective of the speaker’s age or possible status as a student.
It’s of no matter now, as I was able to telephone Ethan via a radio call-in show this week to relay my thanks. What a wonderful spokesperson he is for this issue. In the upcoming election for 5 of 9 school board seats, my sincere desire is that 20 of us might step up to speak Ethan’s exact same message as well is he is speaking it.
Let us every one pledge to do that.
Thank you,
Tamara Shepherd